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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is to extend its seasonal flu vaccination program to all children, free of charge, becoming the first country in the world to do so, the Department of Health said on Wednesday. Children will get AstraZeneca’s nasal spray vaccine, rather than injections, under the new scheme. The roll-out will take time, however, since the drugmaker will not have the capacity to deliver enough new vaccine until 2014 at the earliest. …
| British doctors may be lacking an understanding of the important role that exercise plays in preventing and treating illness, according to a new report released recently. See all stories on this topic » |
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Cypriot media reports claimed that Israel and the UK requested and received permission from Cyprus to hold their maneuvers.
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A top British medical expert says faulty French-made breast implants do not pose any long-term health problems to women even if they rupture.
Three out of four people with mental illness in the UK are receiving no treatment, experts have said in a new report.
Instead, medical experts believe a pregnant woman should stick to a healthy, calorie-controlled diet, which will reduce weight gain by at least half a stone. The study, published on bmj.com, found that 15 per cent of expectant mums in the UK are obese …
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A powerful health advisory agency says Britain should extend free fertility treatments to women up to age 42 as well as same-sex couples, recommendations likely to be followed by many of the U.K.’s medical centers.
Pulmonary rehabilitation and improvement in exercise capacity significantly improve survival in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a new study from the UK.
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Dr John Berardi, who was recently in the UK attending the FitPro convention, is a prominent researcher in the field of exercise and nutritional science and he believes a greater emphasis needs to be placed on engaging with and educating people of all …
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Professor Edzard Ernst, of the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter, is the only professor of complementary medicine in the UK. He has claimed that trials into alternative treatment often fail to record incidents when patients suffered adverse effects.
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The pliosaur, a prehistoric whale-like animal, may have been menacing to other creatures of the sea in the Jurassic Era, but at least one had a very modern-sounding malady. Judyth Sassoon, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in the UK, found that one…
The pliosaur, a prehistoric whale-like animal, may have been menacing to other creatures of the sea in the Jurassic Era, but at least one had a very modern-sounding malady. Judyth Sassoon, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in the UK, found that one…